Ordinary diners who take part in our annual survey each spring review restaurants and leave their feedback, but we also ask them to score restaurants from 1-5 on food, service and ambience. Harden’s then uses an average of these scores and measures them against other establishments in the same price bracket to arrive at the ratings published in the guide and online.

Snippets from some of your feedback may end up in the overall Harden’s review, noticeably they appear in “double quotation marks”. The rest of our pithy, bite-sized restaurant summaries are compiled by analysing the survey data and extracting recurring themes, looking at whether or not a venue was nominated in any of our categories – like ‘favourite’ or ‘most overpriced’ – and, of course, looking at the ratings for food, service and ambience.

The Harden’s ratings indicate that a restaurant is:

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All reviews are compiled from survey comments and ratings, without any regard for our own personal opinions, except in cases where restaurants are too new to have been included in the survey. If you want the editors’ view on new restaurants in London you can find them in our Editors’ Review section.

Summary

The location strikes some as “strange” – “near a canal in a small unassuming town between Nottingham and Derby” – but this “first-class” venture pleases (nearly) all reviewers with its “imaginative, tasty British cooking” and “excellent service”: “expensive but good value for money”.

Price*£69

Food4Very Good

ServiceVery Good

AmbienceGood

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Summary

A “small, stylish restaurant” tucked away on a side street, whose notably “adventurous menu” and “professional feel” make a big impression on many local reporters, who say that “prices are high, but worth it!”

Price*£65

FoodVery Good

ServiceVery Good

AmbienceGood

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Summary

“The best in the Nottingham area after Sat Bains” – a “small restaurant tucked away in a side street” where the food is “cooked creatively with a deal of originality” and staff are “friendly and knowledgeable”. Even sceptics are impressed – “they are trying to provide a really top class dining experience and nearly pull it off – high prices, but a brave attempt”.

Price*£65

FoodVery Good

ServiceVery Good

AmbienceGood

* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.